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brooklynite

(94,589 posts) Wed Jul 22, 2020, 02:27 PM Jul 2020

21% of Texas voters think COVID is a serious problems tha should not be dealt with...

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21% of Texas voters think COVID is a serious problems tha should not be dealt with... (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2020 OP

wow. While dead bodies stay in hospital beds in Austin cause no room in morgues I assume. LizBeth Jul 2020 #1

Ah, Texas. I am just rendering a guess but I suspect that these numbers will tilt... SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #2

I think we're way past the "slow the spread" phase. Initech Jul 2020 #3

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)

1. wow. While dead bodies stay in hospital beds in Austin cause no room in morgues I assume.

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Wed Jul 22, 2020, 02:30 PM

Jul 2020

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)

2. Ah, Texas. I am just rendering a guess but I suspect that these numbers will tilt...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jul 22, 2020, 02:35 PM

Jul 2020

eventually towards some stay at home type of edict, or some restrictions on some businesses being that the CV is rampaging across the state (and quite a few others too, mostly republican if you've noticed, w/ some exceptions such as California). All pls. stay safe, no matter where you are.

Initech

(100,079 posts)

3. I think we're way past the "slow the spread" phase.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jul 22, 2020, 02:39 PM

Jul 2020

It's literally in every town in every state right now. We need to get to work on testing, isolating, and contact tracing. Plus the other preventative measures. At this point it's more about preventing new cases than preventing the spread.

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